Tafas

water colour, Kennington, 182 x 128 mm

'Tafas. Chap. CVIII' typeset brc in border, [the incident illustrated occurs in Chapter CXVIII]. Scene with chaos of figures in middle foreground, with streaks of red, orange and yellow shooting out from foreground to encircle the village, which is predominantly blue and black. Painting roughly bordered by its own black background, with an outer border of natural paper colour.

p 622 [tr ed p 631] - 'The village lay stilly under its slow wreaths of white smoke, as we rode near, on our guard. Some grey heaps seemed to hide in the long grass, embracing the ground in the close way of corpses.'

This is the second of two illustrations bound into the back of the book which is entitled 'Tafas' - the first is a portrait of Tafas el Raashid, a Hawazim Harb tribesman.

Next illustration - Entering Damascus

Click here to return to
the full listing of the illustrations -

List of illustrations

Click here to return to
the introductory paragraphs on the illustrations -

Illustrations described